nVidia today announced the release of the latest iteration of its GeForce 7800 GTX graphics card, the GeForce 7800 GTX 512. Dubbed nVidia's "ultimate enthusiast product," the GeForce 7800 GTX 512 still features the GeForce 7800 core, but runs at 550 MHz instead of at 430 MHz (as with the original GeForce 7800 card). While the original 7800 GTX is a single-slot solution, the 7800 GTX 512 is a dual-slot solution, and it features a new cooling heat sync and heat spreader. Like the 7800 GTX, the 7800 GTX 512 has video in as well as HDTV and video-out capabilities, as well as accelerated decoding of video content like MPEG-2 and WMV9.

nVidia re-engineered the PCB (printed circuit board) to allow for faster memory (instead of 600 MHz DDR memory, the 7800 GTX 512 has 850-MHz DDR). The company claims that the 7800 GTX 512 shows, on average, a 30-to-40-percent performance boost over the original 7800 GTX on most video games.

The card is available from manufacturers beginning today, and will retail for $649 (list). Check out our sister site ExtremeTech for an in-depth review of the XFX nVidia GeForce 7800 GTX 512.

Laarni Almendrala Ragaza is the Managing Editor for the Hardware team. She is in charge of reviewing and testing desktops, laptops, netbooks, monitors, external hard drives, components (such as CPUs and graphics card), and peripheral devices, as well as keeping a motley group of lead analysts happy.
Laarni started her career with PC Magazine in 2000 as a staff editor for the Network Infrastructure team. Over the years, she has taken several positions, usually within the realm of Hardware, including Associate Editor, Section Editor, PCMag...
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